Looking for the U.S. version

I thought I was reading the U.S. version of yahoo.com until I saw this spelling of a Canadian city:

Why would the writer switch from English to the French spelling of Montreal? The English and U.S. spelling is without the acute accent over the E.

Spuds you keep in a handbag?

Are they spuds you keep in a pocketbook? Tater Tots that travel by horse-drawn carriage? What are these “coach potatoes” of which yahoo.com speaks?

They’re a typo, that’s what they are. The expression in the U.S. is “couch potatoes,” and it refers to people who spend a lot of time in front of a television.

Someone needs help with Gramin

I’ll be the first to admit it: I need some help with Gramin. But I’m not alone. I think the folks at Yahoo! Travel could use some help with Gramin, too:

I guess that since this is on a travel site and the sentence is about gadgets and guides, the writer probably means Garmin. I think.

It is is, but should be in

I have a lot of empathy for the writer for Yahoo! Music who made this typographical error:

When I’m proofreading my own stuff, I pay extra-close attention to short words like is, it, if, and in. I learned early in my career that those are the words I was most likely to mistype. So now I only mistype really lentghy words.